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Texas State Service Dog Laws SHORT VERSION Texas Disability Law - Service Dogs Texas Law Requires public facilities and common transportation carriers to admit a person with a disability accompanied by a service dog for assistance and also to admit a trainer of service dogs accompanied by a dog for training purposes. Requires evacuation, transport and temporary shelter of service animals in a disaster. Provides a criminal penalty for those who deny access to people with disabilities because of an assistance animal. Offenses are punishable by fines of not less than $300 and not more than $1,000. Provides full and equal access to housing accommodations for people with disabilities with assistance animals. Provides that people with disabilities may not be charged extra compensation for assistance animals, however, any damages caused by an assistance animal are the responsibility of the person with a disability using the animal. Provides that assistance animals must be trained by organizations generally recognized as reputable and competent by agencies involved in rehabilitation of people with disabilities. State employees may obtain up to ten days of paid leave to attend a training program to familiarize themselves with an assistance dog. Provides protection if an assistance animal is attacked, injured or killed by an individual or an individuals animal. LONG VERSION Texas Human Resources Code, Section 121.003 - 121.006 Sec.?121.003.??DISCRIMINATION PROHIBITED. (a) Persons with disabilities have the same right as the able-bodied to the full use and enjoyment of any public facility in the state. (b)??No common carrier, airplane, railroad train, motor bus, streetcar, boat, or other public conveyance or mode of transportation operating within the state may refuse to accept as a passenger a person with a disability solely because of the persons disability, nor may a person with a disability be required to pay an additional fare because of his or her use of an ass